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W. D. MISENER.

WHEEL FOR YEHIGLES. No. 374,156. Patented Nov. 29, 1887.

Mme/a gimme/ 12v v lia WM UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

WILLIAM DRAKE MISENER, OF WATERDOWN, ONTARIO, CANADA, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO MARY E. OUMMINS, OF SAME PLACE.

WHEEL FOR VEHICLES.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 374,156, dated November 29, 1887.

Application filed March 22, 1886. Serial No. 196.187. (X model.)

To all whom it may concern.- pair of spokes which are set forward in the Be it knownthat I, WILLIAM DRAKE Mishub are let into the recesses b of the said band ENER, of WVaterdown, in the county of Went- D. Two of said bands D are placed on the Worth, Province of Ontario, Dominion of Oanhub, one on the inside and the other on the ada, blacksmith, have invented certain new outside of the spokes, and their edges have and useful Improvements in Carriage and rounded extensions e, which run up a short Wagon Wheels; andIdo hereby declare that distance on the spokes and secure greater the following is aful], clear, and exact descripstrength by the bearing, while the two bands, tion of the construction and operation of the closely fitting each pair of spokes set into the 10 same. 3 hub, as shown, are doubly stayed and braced My invention relates to improvements in in every direction, which prevents the wheel wheels, (more'particularly to that style known from going back, or, as it is usually called, as the Sarven \Vheelf) and the object of my turning the disk of. the wheel on the wrong improvements are to cause greater strength side. 15 and durability than those as now constructed, E are rivet-loolts, which are made to pass and present a very neat, workman-like, and through holes made for themin the outer band, finished appearance. I attain these objects by D, and through between the spokes and the mechanism illustrated in the aceompanythrough openings in the inner band, and each ing drawings, which form part of this specifirmly riveted to the said bands D, making 6 o fication, and in whichthe construction of the wheel-hub very strong Figure l is a side view of wheel-hub. Fig. and adding greatly to its appearance. 2 is a side View of the central portion of a By making the bands D D double-that is, wheel. Fig. 3 is a side view of hub, with so that each of the recessed and projecting porspokes attached, but broken offshort. Fig. tions will receive two spokes, and providing 4 2 4 is a perspective view ofthe outside offlanged such projecting and recessed portions a b with band. Fig. 5 is a similar View of sanie,showrivet-holes at or about the centers thereof-the ing the inside. rivets can be inserted to more securely hold A represents the hub, B the mortise-sockets the Spokes in place, one rivet sufficing for for the spoke-tenons. They are cut in pairs each pair of spokes, as will be readily seen. 7 5 0 and are double dodging, as shown in said Having thus described my device and its Fig. 1. advantages, .what I claim as my invention, and

O are spokes, whose ends .are tenoned and desire to secure by Letters Patent, isinserted in pairs in the said mortise-openings In a wheel for vehicles, the combination, B. Each pair rests firmly against the other with the hub A, having the doubledodge mor- 8o 5 and securelysetin their mortise-openings,and tises B B and spokes O, of the flanged bands when all are inserted in the hub there are four D D, constructed with projecting and recessed pairs of spokes set toward the outer portion portions a I), having rivet-holes at or about the of the hub alternately with four pairs set incenters thereof, and the rivets E, passing ward toward the rear or inside portion of the through said holes and between the spokes, o hub. Each pair has a bearing on the other. substantially as described.

D is the flanged annular band constructed Dated at Hamilton, Ontario, this 2-lth day with alternate projecting and recessed parts, of February, 1886.

a b, the width of each pair of spokes C. The WILLIAM DRAKE M ISENER. said projecting parts a are made to fit in be- In presence of 45 tween each pair of spokes which are set back JOHN W. OUMMrNs,

toward the inner part of the hub, and each WVM. BRUCE. 

